HOW TO : Restrict access to proxied content in Apache
If you are using the mod_proxy feature in Apache to forward requests for certain content to a backend server, but want to restrict access to that...
Networking
HOW TO : Use openssl client to check for PCI compliant SSL ciphers
Simple one liner to check if your web server is using strong ciphers [code] openssl s_client -cipher LOW -host SERVER_NAME -port 443 [/code]
Brilliant use of DNS
I was listening to this week’s edition of Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast and Steve talked about a unique way of using DNS. His spintrite application...
HOW TO : Capture all traffic to and from a host using tcpdump
Quick one liner for capturing traffic destined to and arriving from a host (IP address) using tcpdump and writing it to a file for analyzing later...
Project Uptime : Progress Report – 3
Things have been a bit hectic at work.. so didn’t get a lot of time to work on this project. Now that that the new server...
HOW TO : Route traffic to loopback interface in Linux
Back in 2009 (last decade!! 🙂 ), I wrote a blog post on how you can trick windows to route traffic destined to a particular IP...